What lands have been called by names chosen to disassociate those lands from its inhabitantsThank you TED, your answers are always insightful and informative. However, your newest edit is a terrific answer to a question that wasn't asked. You elaborate on good ways to name a country, and I happen to agree with you as I understand exactly what is in a name. But the question was "what areas were named specifically to disservice the indigenous inhabitants". Yourself and others got very caught up in the two examples that I presented, but they were just examples (and not even good examples, it turns out).

What was the significance of changing the name of “Persia” to “Iran”?Might the European use of the word "Persia" to refer to Iran be analogous with the Roman use of the word "Palestine" to refer to the Levant? I understand that both were intended to separate (in the eyes of the Greeks and Romans) the lands from those who were currently inhabiting it. Are there other examples of such "conquerors renaming" to separate the people from the land?

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What made Alexander great?I believe that Veeraraj means "cameo" like "talisman", what would be said in English as either "good luck" or "predestined". Is this right, Veeraraj?